Person:George Cooke (12)

A transcription of his will (proved 30 September 1708)

In the Name of God Amen I George Cooke of Burdenbury in the County of Warwick Yeoman being infirme in Body but of perfect mind & memory Praised be God therefore and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye Do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner and forme following And First of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the into the hands of God that Gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Buriall at the Discretion of my Execut’r hereafter named not Doubting but that the Generall Resurrection to Receive the same again by the mighty Power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherwith it hath pleas’d God to bless me in this Life I Give & Dispose the same as followeth

   Imprimis I will that my Debts & Funerall Charges be immediatly payd by my Executor here after named Item I give and Bequeath unto my Dearly beloved Wife Grace Cooke the summe of Forty shillings for every year During her naturall Life to be payd her by my Executor hereafter named if she Doe not thinke fit to Live with him, Alsoe I give her my said Wife one third of my Land or Real Estate Lying & Sittuate in the Parish of Leamineton Hastangs During her Natural Life
Item I give & bequeath unto my Son George Cooke the summe of Fourty pounds of Lawfull English money to be Payd him by my Executor hereafter named  Item I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Cooke the like summe of Fourty pounds to be payd as afforesd  Item I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary on shilling  Item I give to my Daughter Emery one shilling  Item I give to my Daughter Anne one shilling. All which Bequests to be payd by my Executor hereafter named Item All the rest of my Lands Goods & Chattells whatsoever I give & bequeath to my son John Cooke and to his Heirs Male for ever But for want of Heirs male Lawfully begotten by my said son John Cooke. Then all my said Estate in land & Houses I give to my Son George Cooke & his Heirs male Lawfully begotten and for want of such Heirs Male I give & bequeath all such my Lands & Hereditaments to my Son Thomas Cooke & his Heirs for ever  Item I will ordain Constitute & Appoint my said son John Cooke to be my Sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament. Item I order & appoint my said Executor not to pay the said summe of Forty pounds I bequeath’d to my son George Cook till twelve months and a day is past after my Desease  Alsoe not to pay the other fourty pounds to my said son Thomas Cooke till two years after my Decease. My further will is that if my said Son John Cooke will not or do not Administer of my Goods & Chattells then I will that my said son John Cooke pay only fourty pounds to my son Thomas Cooke two years afer my Decease, and that my son George Cooke shall Administer instead of the fourty pounds Above mention’d this being my Last will and Testament I doe hereby Revoke Dissanull & make void all & former wills by me heretofore made will’d & bequeath’d Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will & Testament. In Wittness whereof I have Hereunto Sett my hand and Seal this twenty eighth Day of May In the sixth year of the Reign of our Souvereign Lady Queen Anne by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France & Ireland Defender of the Faith etc Anno Dmi 1707

George Cooke [his mark: C]

Sealed Signed Published & Declared by the said George Cooke to be his Last will & Testamt we being wittnesses who have subscribed o’r names the the Presence of the Testator

Benjamin Chapman (his marke) Charles(?) Chapman Henry Williams

The Inventorie of Geo: Cook late deceased

Imprimis his Wareing appaearell and Money in his purs -- 00:10:00

Item Goods in the house -- 00:10:00

Item Goods in the Parlor -- 01:00:00

Item Goods in the Chamber over the house -- 00:15:00

Item Goods in the Chamber over the Parlor -- 00:15:00

Item Goods in the Kitchen -- 01:00:00

Item four horses -- 10:00:00

Item Nine Cowes -- 13:00:00

Item Threescore of Sheep -- 09:00:00

Item the Crop growing upon the ground -- 20:00:00

Item a Waggon Carts plowes and Harrowes and other implements of belonging thereunto -- 10:00:00

Tol -- 66:10:00

June 20th 1708

William Reeve

William Jeffiott

1. ↑ Parish Register.

   May 4 Georgius Cooke filius Johis Cooke et Alicia uxoris suis baptizatus fuit

2. ↑ FamilySearch. Warwickshire, England. Warwickshire Parish Registers, 1538-1900.
3. ↑ Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Warwickshire). Hearth tax returns, 1662-1684 in the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1959).

   George Cooke -- 05 hearthes -- 0-10-0

4. ↑ Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Warwickshire). Hearth tax returns, 1662-1684 in the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1959).

   5 hearths